California

Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes as destructive wildfires roar across the West Coast.

The shooting of two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies in an apparent ambush prompted a manhunt for the shooter, reaction from the president and protests outside the hospital where the wounded deputies were being treated Saturday night in California.

Wildfire smoke that posed a health hazard to millions choked the West Coast on Saturday as firefighters battled deadly blazes that obliterated some towns and displaced tens of thousands of people, the latest in a series of calamities this year.

A passenger on a Southwest flight from San Francisco to Denver captured eerie video as her plane departed into orange clouds as fires rage on in the Bay Area.

An autopsy report released Friday says “Glee” actor Naya Rivera raised her arm and called for help as she accidentally drowned while boating with her 4-year-old son on a California lake.

Jake and Jamie Hyland are still recovering from serious injuries after the young couple were forced to race out of their Okanogan County property with their baby, due to wildfires that raged in Eastern Washington. Their baby did not survive.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will allow former inmate firefighters to expunge their records and become professional firefighters. 

Naomi Tseggai turned 9 on Thursday, yet she is unable to eat, speak, or walk, after a horrible pool accident. Left with brain damage from a near-drowning on Sept. 8, 2019, Naomi can breathe unassisted and her eyes are open, but she does respond.

Erica Kious told Tucker Carlson that she's received an overwhelming amount of negative comments about going public with the footage, adding that she's closing down because she no longer feels like she can safely operate her business.

What's Halloween without trick-or-treating? Los Angeles County residents are about to find out.   

To some, it seemed like an apocalypse and many wondered, "what happens next?" 

Others around the Bay Area also documented hazy horizons, red suns and gray skies -- all the result of the raging wildfires burning around California, which as of this week had scorched a record-setting 2.3 million acres of earth.

Authorities were in pursuit of a truck hauling a small trailer in the Malibu area Tuesday afternoon.

The Pasadena woman widely credited for popularizing gender reveal parties wants people to stop after learning the El Dorado fire in Yucaipa was sparked by a smoke-generating pyrotechnic device used at a gender reveal party.

California is experiencing a record-breaking fire season. Fire officials said Tuesday that in 2020, wildfires have torched more than 2.2 million acres across the state, surpassing the 1.96 million acres burned in all of 2018.

The Los Angeles Police Department was called to a house party early Tuesday to a Woodland Hills neighborhood where hundreds of people gathered, defying local health orders. 

Cal Fire officials did not identify who hosted the party and if the hosts will be held responsible for the fire. 

The Los Angeles Police Department sought the public’s help locating a 6-year-old boy who authorities believe was abducted by his biological father. 

Juliana Park was one of the hundreds of campers who were forced to rush from the popular forest because of an explosive Creek Fire that erupted over the weekend and was burning near Shaver Lake, Huntington Lake and Big Creek in the rugged foothills of eastern Fresno County.